Byte Gauntlet #1: WIN a copy of Black Myth: Wukong

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Hello everyone!

As this year comes to an end, we’re excited to announce our first-ever coding challenge! In it, you’ll be able to showcase your code, get feedback on how to improve, and have a chance for your code to be featured on our series! To tie in with the spirit of Christmas, we’ll also be giving away gifts to the works that best fulfill the challenge requirements!

The Gauntlet:

If you’ve been watching our Vampire Survivors series, we’ve already coded the basic, plain-old projectile weapons such as the knife, whip, and the axe. Let’s spice up our gameplay by adding in a new type of projectile weapon: The Runetracer.

Your challenge is to create an implementation of the Runetracer using the revamped weapon system we created in Parts 15 and 16. We’ve already created a projectile spawning system, so your main challenge will be to create the ricocheting projectiles that the Runetracer uses.

You’ll need to create the base weapon, plus all 8 levels, and the weapon also has to work with passives as well. There is no need to code the weapon’s evolution, however.

How to make a submission

To enter, simply post a reply on this topic. You will need to detail the steps in creating the weapon and the code for any necessary scripts. Remember to add images and videos to help explain your creation better!

When reviewing your submission, we’ll look out for the following:

• Code that is clean, modular, and easy for others to understand.
• How accurate the projectile is to the original.
• Visual feedback, like particles and trails for the projectile.
• How properly your post is written and formatted.

Your submission will be reviewed on Part 18’s project files. Hence, we have temporarily made the project files of Part 18 available to everyone until the end of the challenge here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99946657

To format your posts, you can use either HTML or Markdown. We recommend Markdown, as it is much easier to write than HTML.

IMPORTANT: In your post, please enclose all your codes in code blocks like below:

This is a code block

To get a code block, you need to add 3 backticks at the start and end of your code, like this:

```
This is a code block
```

Rewards:

We will select up to 6 winners: 3 from our paying Patrons, and 3 from our free members.

• Winning Patrons will receive 1 of the 3 games from the prize pool below sent to their Steam account. 1st place will get to choose any game they want, 2nd place will be able to choose from the remaining options, and 3rd place will get the last game.
• Free members will be gifted 1, 2 or 4 months of Silver Patron membership, depending on your placement.

You’ll have from now till the 31st of December 2024 to post your submissions. Looking forward to seeing all of your weapon recreations and happy holidays!

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